Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• Hate
• Evil
• Self-will

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• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • House
  • Small

• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Control

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Powerful
  • Unique
  • Criticism

• I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Dad

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • She
  • Exist
  • Moss

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to open the borders for more trades and more immigrants.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Hand
  • Trump
  • Economic

• The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • True
  • Words
  • Die

• We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Power
  • Remember
  • System

• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Strong
  • Romantic
  • Hopeless

• Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact and scale of WikiLeaks. It's a whole different level.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Question
  • Doing

• All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Evil
  • Mankind

• Whom they have injured they also hate.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Hate
  • Injured

• I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

  

  Ava DuVernay

• I think, unfortunately, many opinion leaders in Germany - including government officials, politicians, social service bureaucrats and so forth - they are in the private system, and they get paid the private insurance by their employer. So for them this is the best of two worlds: They have some more expensive and privileged access, but they do not have to pay for it themselves. This is a system which is both inefficient and unfair at the same time, but it is defended by those who profit from this system, and this includes many opinion leaders and many politicians.

  

  Karl Lauterbach
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Leader

• What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • God
  • Hate
  • Evil